More a project than a closed piece of theatre, the Artslab production And The Walls Will Be Silent is an ongoing work which has included collaboration with Polish and French institutions. It has three characters, each based on a novel researched by the individual performer; all three then create one embracing story.

The spoken text is taken directly from the novels, which are Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, To The Wedding by John Berger and Fo by J. Coetzee. Additional speech is borrowed from Brendan Kennelly's Trojan Women. These are considerable writers, and the words are impressively crafted.

The new story in this experimental piece has a man and a woman kneeling beside the sea, lost in thought and silence. He has seen violence destroy his family, she is a victim of AIDS. A mysterious woman leads them to articulate their feelings, and by so doing to reenter the world of reality and emotion. Psychic survival becomes a possibility.

It is a work which demands great versatility of its actors, and Jarlath Rice, Mia Gallagher and Roisin Loughrey are more than adequate to its demands of speech and disciplined movement, directed by Chrissie Poulter.